HISTORICKÁ SOCIOLOGIE
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HISTORICKÁ SOCIOLOGIE, Vol 5 No 2 (2013), 29–49

Chicagská sociologická škola a počátky Chicagské univerzity

[Chicago School of Sociology and the Beginnings of Chicago University]

Hynek Jeřábek

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23363525.2014.20
published online: 03. 04. 2014

abstract

The article describes the role of the Chicago School of Sociology in the development of empirical social research. It traces the increase in the significance of the education of doctoral students on American universities at the turn of the 20th century, and the role of philanthropic foundations. It focuses on the contribution of prominent individuals: W. R. Harper, rector and founder of the University of Chicago, obtained top figures and founded journals in some major fields. A. W. Small was the first chair of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, founded the American Journal of Sociology and wrote the first two textbooks of sociology. W. I. Thomas was responsible for the famous study Polish Peasant in Europe and America and for the theoretical foundations passed on to his successors. In 1916 R. E. Park published a project in which Chicago became a social laboratory and he inspired and was an advisor for numerous doctoral projects that later were published as sociological monographs. The methodologist E. W. Burgess organised empirical research for the school of doctoral studies that emerged in Chicago and successfully worked there for twenty years. It is beyond the scope of one article to discuss also the monographs by doctoral students at the University of Chicago. Paper examines in detail only the monograph by Park, Burgess and McKenzie titled The City.

keywords: Chicago school of sociology; Robert E. Park; Albion W. Small; Ernest W. Burgess; the beginnings of empirical social research

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